It doesn't run without pouring gas in the throttle body, it has some body rot, the brakes don't work, and the clutch doesn't work. I love it already.

My first priority is making it start and idle by itself. So I have the fuel tank apart cleaning and restoring that and I'll post pictures/updates when I have a chance. I notoriously have slow projects, so don't expect too much. I've had the same Datsun 510 GM 3800 Type 2 swap going on for like 5 years now haha.

Seems like a super useful forum you guys have here and excited to tear into this thing.

Thanks all. Today I got into the fuel tank and played with the sender. Level sensor is reading between roughly 3 and 12 MOhms. You guys know if that's about right for this vehicle?
Pump was fried (naturally), new one is on order. Sender is caked on with rust so I'm working on de-rusting it, but none of the screws stripped or anything taking it apart. Inside of the tank is pretty nasty, but perhaps salvageable. I've ordered the POR15 tank restore kit to hopefully take care of the tank... although in hindsight it's like 80 bucks and a new tank is about 200... so maybe I shoulda just bought the new tank.

Other than that I basically keep a can of rust converter with me at all times and spray as I work on whatever body stuff to keep it at bay. I'm no good at welding so I'll either be stopping and leaving the holes, or fiberglass/bondo/rivetting new work in. The exception to that being the driver's side rocker panel which is particularly bad, I'll get someone to actually weld that and pay the money.

That's today's update.

So here is the whole sender:

And here is the fried pump:

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